quotes about Metaphysics
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.
-- Gary RenardSource : Gary R. Renard (2010). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
-- Mircea EliadeSource : "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
-- Samuel Butler -
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet -
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
-- Thomas de QuinceySource : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.103
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We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.
-- Emma Curtis HopkinsSource : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag